Description :
This is a theoretical course for the beginning
nursing student. Nursing Process I provides the
student with the fundamentals of nursing,
including such basic skills as health assessment,
legal aspects of nursing practice, communication
and documentation technique, asepsis, the nursing
process, caring for patients having special
procedures or specimen collection, and the role of
the nurse as a member of the health care team.
This course also includes explanation of specific
physiological and psychological human needs as
hygiene, safety, sleep and rest, sensory, grief
and loss, self-concept and the nurse's role in
assisting a person to meet these needs, while
sensitive to cultural diversity, human dignity,
and development progression.